The building is planned to be built on a narrow L-shaped section with a short side facing the Garden Ring. The Dobryninsky flour and confectionery plant was recently located here - in 2006 it moved to the Eastern District as part of the industrial zones liquidation program. The plot went to the development group Horus Capital, which was going to build a premium class business center called Oasis. It was designed by the British bureau KPF, which specializes mainly in skyscrapers. Originally the British planned a tower here as well. But it soon became clear that it did not fit within the height restrictions, and they converted it into a mid-rise building - 13 stories high, not counting the three underground levels. After the downgrade, the project, however, did not become less expressive: the crystal-like volume hung over the Garden Ring like an iceberg, and curved glass panels were envisaged on the rear facade - according to the authors' intention, creating the impression of a "powerful energy explosion". One way or another, the project did not materialize - after the crisis, the developer sold the asset, and the construction, brought to zero, was frozen.
The new owner (BIN Group) changed the architectural team - now the ABV architectural bureau is working on the project. “I had an internal protest against what was planned at this place,” admitted to Archi.ru, architect Nikita Biryukov, the author of the updated design of the business center. "The new customer gave us carte blanche, and we made a more pragmatic house, which, among other things, meets today's economic requirements."
The altered building on Korovye Val promises to join the range of deceptively simple, but in fact European-style, office centers that are typical of Nikita Biryukov's architectural style. The facades, which fully meet the definition of "modest but expensive", partly reconcile the paradoxical architectural environment - the neighboring buildings belong to two eras, one century apart. On the right is a skyscraper of an unsettled office center with a high-tech façade, on the left is the one-story Burevestnik cinema with a portico, stucco and other attributes of neoclassicism, which is slowly and difficult to rebuild with city money for the Alexander Gradsky theater. Between them, the architects plan to insert a combination of two volumes of similar height.
The first, 11-storey, volume has a T-shape in plan. A lower and longer 10-storey building is cut into its wide central part. The latter stretches along 1st Dobryninsky Lane and, as it moves away from the Garden Ring, it descends in two ledges - from 44 meters, first to 37, then to 22 meters. The façade pattern follows a strict logic formed by a combination of glazed surfaces and areas finished with sand-colored ceramic panels.
In fact, variations in the combination of glass and ceramics constitute the main decoration of this building. The continuous glass façade of the tall building overlooking the Garden Ring is formed by tape windows. Then solid horizontal lines are interrupted by a dotted line of ceramics - the balconies of the lintel (inside it there are elevators and elevator lobbies) are trimmed with thin ceramic gratings. At the end of the long body, the rhythm drastically changes to a vertical one - it is set by ceramic "frames" two stories high. On the corner section between the floors, ceramic beads reappear, providing a smooth transition to the calm pattern of the side façade of the long building. As you move away from the Garden Ring, this metric step is repeated twice more. As a result, the facade looks more than varied without losing stylistic unity.
A simple colonnade is located in the lower part of the long building. Functionally, the building is also extremely practical: the underground levels are reserved for parking, the high ground floor - for the lobby, restaurant, dining room for office workers and retail, starting from the third - open-plan office space, apartments. With such a neatly calculated approach - even taking into account the fact that the customer had to reduce the number of square meters, fulfilling the tougher requirements of the city in terms of building density (instead of 63 thousand square meters of total floor space, 60 thousand are planned here) - the prospects for the office center look optimistic. And the future of this part of Zamoskvorechye seems prosperous.
